Victorian England

Christmas comes but once a year. Some posh git wrote that. I know I've already used it at the start of a blog, but does anyone understand what it means? Of course Christmas comes once a year, but why say but once? But once what? Victorian English was a load of garbled shit. Can you imagine some guy from Victorian times coming back now? Forsooth and begad? What does any of it mean? He'd be dead in no time. " He didn't fit in, so we topped him." More to our liking, I think. I must spend more time looking into our Victorian culture before I slag it off. Could save me tons of humiliation.